Background and Physical Properties

badly broken along the left side; the verso has been covered with strips of paper which may conceal the address if there is one

Palaeographic Description

See electronic version of PMich VIII, 486

Status

published

Library

Cairo

Contents

Date

IInd century A.D.

Origin

unknown place (north of Antinooupolis), province of Egypt

Provenance

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

30-C123CG4-A (1)

Language

Greek

Genre

Documentary

Author

Sempronius Clemens

Type of Text/Title of Work

Private Letter

Content

Letter from Sempronius Clemens to Apollinarius, explaining why he had been unable, not unwilling, to give the necessary attention to matters entrusted to him by Apollinarius, and assuring him that he may be relied on for the future

Sempronius Clemens to his most esteemed Apollinarius, greeting. I received your letters from your <father>, Iulius Sabinus, from which I learned that you state, not that I was unable to attend to your affairs, but that, as you say, I was unwilling. And, of course, on this point I understood, but nevertheless I shall present my justification. For the delay arose in the fact that Valerianus, not by his own wish, but because his wife controverted our orders to him, went off straightway to her. Since in this situation you enjoined upon me with considerable earnestness to write to you, in order that in this way no further reason for delay should again remain, I indicate that under pressing need I am going up to Antinooupolis and shall write to you from there with reference to these matters. And if per chance Fortune permits me to set out hither from Antinooupolis, there is no delay. For I shall write to you immediately after this distraction, so that you may not be anxious concerning your affairs. For in this way I shall show you how not again will I neglect anything.

Availability/System Requirements

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Collection Access

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